LOS PRE-RAPHAELITES EN LA TATE

By far the best exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite art I have seen

Jonathan Jones, Guardian

The Pre-Raphaelites are revealed as the cutting edge of art
Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Times

Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde is proving very popular, so here are the easiest ways to see the exhibition:

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Beloved ('The Bride') 1865-6
Oil on canvasPurchased with assistance from Sir Arthur Du Cros Bt and Sir Otto Beit KCMG through the Art Fund 1916

• Become a Tate Member and avoid the ticket queues. Members do not need to book timed tickets. Show your members card at the exhibition entrance.
• Book more than 3 days in advance and we will post tickets to you
• Book online between 4 hours and 3 days in advance of visiting and pick your tickets up in the gallery. Tickets booked via telephone must be done so at least 24 hours in advance.
• Buy tickets from 10.00 on the day in the gallery. There may be queues at times. We advise booking in advance to avoid disappointment.

Combining rebellion, beauty, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, thePre-Raphaelites constitute Britain’s first modern art movement. This exhibition brings together over 150 works in different media, including painting, sculpture, photography and the applied arts, revealing the Pre-Raphaelites to be advanced in their approach to every genre. Led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) rebelled against the art establishment of the mid-nineteenth century, taking inspiration from early Renaissance painting. The exhibition establishes the PRB as an early example of the avant-garde: painters who self-consciously overturned orthodoxy and established a new benchmark for modern painting and design.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Lady Lilith 1866–8

Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial 1935

 It will include many famous Pre-Raphaelite works, and will also re-introduce some rarely seen masterpieces including Ford Madox Brown’s polemical Work 1852–65 and the 1858 wardrobe designed by Philip Webb and painted by Edward Burne-Jones on the theme of The Prioress’s Tale.

You’ll also see John Everett Millais’s first painting ‘en plein air’ entitled: Ferdinand Lured by Ariel 1849-50 and the politically charged: A Huguenot, on St Bartholomew’s Day, refusing to shield himself from danger by wearing the Roman Catholic Badge 1851-2.

Edward Coley Burne-Jones 
Laus Veneris 1873–1878

© Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums

The exhibition shows that the Pre-Raphaelite environment was widely encompassing in its reach across the fine and decorative arts, in response to a fast-changing religious and political backdrop, and in its relationship to women practitioners

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